Catalog Sales up 72% (1 Viewer)

[Greg_M]

Blu.ray.com is reporting Blu Ray Catalog Sales are up 72%, the main reason catalog titles haven't been selling is the price. When retailers lowered the prices this year sales went up.

Shoppers don't want to spend $15 more on a cataloge title than it's DVD counterpoint, but if price accordingly ($2 - $3 dollars higher) they will buy.

The Studios are now realizing this so hopefully we'll see a large bunch of catalog titles in 2011 and at the lower price. The studios may have found a new source of income!

 

[MatthewA]

Well, they had nowhere to go but up.

 

[MattFini]

This is fantastic news for me, since catalogue titles are of more interest to me.

Maybe now the studios will start rolling them out and our friends at Universal will dish out the rest of their HD DVD titles they're still holding back.